An essential part of our ministry to the poor is creating an awareness of the plight of the poor while also connecting it with our faith which compels us to relieve the suffering of unjust poverty, and we do this through presentations at churches and schools. The following is a list of churches, high schools and universities where Gerry Straub has shared his conversion story and communicated the need for people to help the poor, compelling his audience towards purposeful action. At each event, scenes from many films are screened.

The following are the colleges, high schools and grammar schools Gerry has visited and shown films:

Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills, California

University of Notre Dame in Indiana (2x)

St. Bonaventure University in upstate New York (5x)

University of Dayton in Ohio (3x)

Villanova University in Philadelphia

Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (2x)

St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania

Canisius College in Buffalo, New York (2x)

Wheaton College in Chicago

Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia (5x)

Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (3x)

Siena College in Loudonville, New York

Cabrini College in Philadelphia

Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Holy Family University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island

University of Buffalo in Amherst, New York (2x)

The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago

Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania

Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington

The University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Adelphi University in Garden City, New York

Villa Maria College in Buffalo, New York

The Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy

The Emmanuel Community (4,500 young people) in Paray-le-Monial, France

Gerry Straub has also lead day-long retreats on the theme of poverty and prayer in California, Arizona, Missouri, Ohio, Connecticut, New York, Minnesota and Assisi, Italy. He has also spoken at national conferences for religion teachers and campus ministers held in Maryland, Ohio and Indiana. Gerry has also given his presentation to the Trappist monks at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky and to the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in New York City. In August of 2009 he gave a presentation at a gathering of over 5,000 young people in Paray-le-Monial, France.

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I remember when I attended Alvernia University me & 2 nuns went to Chestnut Hill College to listen to you lecture about poverty! I was the only student that signed up to go!

I was enjoying reading your book I bought “”Thoughts of a Blind Beggar”

The mediations in your book helped me to have a sense of peace! I live in poverty myself in a city in an Act 47 crisis with shortage of police, there were cuts in social service programs which not only affected consumers but…..a sporadic job I’ve relied on for 10 years there is no work there due to the funding cuts…………….I tried making a geographical change back home to Los Angeles, CA………

I had been checking into shared living was “200 block of S Rampart Blvd” in 2006 before we met……..I was staying temporarily in San Bernardio so I’m sure you can imagine what I saw on my way home

Your DVD “Rescue Me” is a favorite of mine I wasn’t where skid row is but, close to it…….. The people I met with for shared housing said I wasn’t far from home the 1500 Block of Talmadge St since it was getting dark I just went back to where I was staying temporarily………& came back East until I move again one day……

I do also like the other DVD I bought “The Narrow Path” walking toward peace & nonviolence that’s the right way!!

I enjoyed talking with you at Chestnut Hill College at lunch. I’d love to hear you speak again & will keep checking the calendar I do hope you 1 day you return to the Reading, PA area & even though

This is my favorite quote on my website
Favorite Quotations
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.”

Unfortunately the book written by you that I bought at Chestnut Hill College “Thoughts of a Blind Beggar was stolen more than likely by a group of youth……..that I had seen on my fire escape there was a sign the said “No Trespassing” that my landlord had posted on the property……….I had to be somewhere so I let it go……….When I was gone though for a little while they must have got into my room I could tell by the things that were stolen……

I could relate to the part in the book about finding God for me he had to be 1 I understood!! Since I have 19 years in recovery I choose to form my own concept of God……….

Thank goodness whomever stole my things at least left my DVD’s alone or didn’t want them just the book with your signature……………I have prayed that they read some of the book & learned something from it……

I remember had said to me you might be retiring back then I’d so glad to see you haven’t……..

Sometime you said must have stuck with me at Alvernia I was going to switch my major from Social Work transfer student to Liberal Arts major except I wasn’t allowed to take even 1 class I wanted that I was interested in due to the 1 adviser……..Both advisers liked my art unfortunately there it was just a minor………….
They said I could take classes with these majors besides classes from Art Minor……Communication♦: * Corporate * Film, Culture and Creative Arts * Journalism * Media Design and Production * Public Relations and Advertising * Theatre Studies, or classes in the Theology♦ major……..At one time I wold have liked any in the communication major just a job…….not in 2007 or now or ever………

I’d rather keep volunteering at the local arts centers while I’m living in my present city, & also do some volunteer work for a local TV station!

I hope you are showed with blessing, please keep writing books, writing
& directing the truth of poverty & giving people hope!!